Triple

T13131157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Roman medicine E311967 entity
Predicate hasText P7166 FINISHED
Object De Materia Medica
De Materia Medica is an influential 1st-century pharmacological treatise by Dioscorides that systematically catalogues medicinal plants, animals, and minerals used in ancient medicine.
E1023554 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: De Materia Medica | Statement: [Roman medicine, hasText, De Materia Medica]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Materia Medica
Context triple: [Roman medicine, hasText, De Materia Medica]
  • A. De Medicina
    De Medicina is an influential first-century AD medical treatise by the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus, covering topics such as diet, pharmacology, surgery, and general medical practice in ancient Rome.
  • B. Institutiones medicae
    Institutiones medicae is a foundational 18th-century medical textbook that systematized clinical teaching and greatly influenced medical education in Europe.
  • C. Compendium of Materia Medica
    The Compendium of Materia Medica is a monumental 16th-century Chinese pharmacopeia that systematically catalogs medicinal substances, their properties, and uses, and is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of traditional Chinese medicine.
  • D. The Book of Medicines
    The Book of Medicines is a poetry collection by Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan that weaves Indigenous spirituality, environmental themes, and personal healing into lyrical meditations on land and body.
  • E. The Canon of Medicine
    The Canon of Medicine is a seminal 11th-century medical encyclopedia by Avicenna that systematized Greco-Arabic medical knowledge and served as a standard medical text in both the Islamic world and Europe for centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: De Materia Medica
Triple: [Roman medicine, hasText, De Materia Medica]
Generated description
De Materia Medica is an influential 1st-century pharmacological treatise by Dioscorides that systematically catalogues medicinal plants, animals, and minerals used in ancient medicine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: De Materia Medica
Target entity description: De Materia Medica is an influential 1st-century pharmacological treatise by Dioscorides that systematically catalogues medicinal plants, animals, and minerals used in ancient medicine.
  • A. De Medicina
    De Medicina is an influential first-century AD medical treatise by the Roman encyclopedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus, covering topics such as diet, pharmacology, surgery, and general medical practice in ancient Rome.
  • B. Institutiones medicae
    Institutiones medicae is a foundational 18th-century medical textbook that systematized clinical teaching and greatly influenced medical education in Europe.
  • C. Compendium of Materia Medica
    The Compendium of Materia Medica is a monumental 16th-century Chinese pharmacopeia that systematically catalogs medicinal substances, their properties, and uses, and is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of traditional Chinese medicine.
  • D. The Book of Medicines
    The Book of Medicines is a poetry collection by Chickasaw writer Linda Hogan that weaves Indigenous spirituality, environmental themes, and personal healing into lyrical meditations on land and body.
  • E. The Canon of Medicine
    The Canon of Medicine is a seminal 11th-century medical encyclopedia by Avicenna that systematized Greco-Arabic medical knowledge and served as a standard medical text in both the Islamic world and Europe for centuries.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d806a9fe888190b081e2d9ea665d6c completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d981b27a8c81909a92ab7be5d3a7e9 completed April 10, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6eae08a148190af391d173f25b714 completed May 3, 2026, 6:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6ed831e008190a4bab67ea94cbf22 completed May 3, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6ede044788190bdac73cdde57044b completed May 3, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:07 p.m.